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Is your 2026 resolution to read more? Now is the perfect time to stock up on books for the new year. Until December 31, ...
12/22/2025

Is your 2026 resolution to read more? Now is the perfect time to stock up on books for the new year. Until December 31, take 20% off all books on our website using discount code BRRR25 at checkout! ❄️

Start browsing: ubcpress.ca/browse-books

Through biography, "John Hart" by Patricia E. Roy illuminates the political and economic history of British Columbia dur...
12/22/2025

Through biography, "John Hart" by Patricia E. Roy illuminates the political and economic history of British Columbia during the Depression and two world wars. https://bit.ly/3N7mFLW

"After Redress: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice," edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oik...
12/19/2025

"After Redress: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice," edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa, is an innovative and critical examination of continuing calls for justice in the wake of state redress and reconciliation agreements. https://bit.ly/458qirb

"Sufism in Canada," edited by Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond and Merin Shobhana Xavier, considers how Sufism informs Islam a...
12/18/2025

"Sufism in Canada," edited by Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond and Merin Shobhana Xavier, considers how Sufism informs Islam and popular spirituality, opening new avenues of understanding about religiosity and Muslim identities in this country. https://bit.ly/3MHEl0B

12/17/2025

Stunden Bower critiques PFRA rehabilitation, showing high-modernist, technocratic policies reshaped Prairie environments, agriculture, and Indigenous lives while entrenching settler colonialism.

"Chris Arnett’s 'Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art' is an enormous contribution to BC and Cascadi...
12/16/2025

"Chris Arnett’s 'Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art' is an enormous contribution to BC and Cascadian Indigenous studies. The links of rock art to ghost dances, Indigenous prophets, dreamer traditions and epidemics is a giant step forward into a fully inclusive history."

Thanks to The BC Review for including "Signs of the Time" on their 2025 Reviewer Picks list!

Reviewer picks 2025 (part II)

"Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance" by Amy Janzwood reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pipeline de...
12/16/2025

"Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance" by Amy Janzwood reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pipeline development in North America. https://bit.ly/49g3fwY

Available in paperback, ePUB, and open access PDF.

"The Thin Edge of Innovation" charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovati...
12/15/2025

"The Thin Edge of Innovation" charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city. https://bit.ly/4rUPQC9

Woohoo! We were thrilled to receive this box of cookies from Nest Catering and Conferences. Thanks, Nest, for spreading ...
12/15/2025

Woohoo! We were thrilled to receive this box of cookies from Nest Catering and Conferences. Thanks, Nest, for spreading the holiday cheer! 🎅🎄

Thanks to The BC Review for including "Unceded: Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now" b...
12/11/2025

Thanks to The BC Review for including "Unceded: Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now" by George M. Abbott on their 2025 Reviewer Picks list!

Reviewer picks 2025 (part I)

This Policy Magazine book list taught us two things:1) There are many great book about Canadian prime ministers2) We hav...
12/05/2025

This Policy Magazine book list taught us two things:

1) There are many great book about Canadian prime ministers
2) We have published several of them

We're organizing our Policy Holiday Book List this year by theme, staring with books about Canadian prime ministers for every patriotic politico on your gift

Our winter sale is on until the end of the month with discount code BRRR25 at checkout! Do you need your books by Christ...
12/05/2025

Our winter sale is on until the end of the month with discount code BRRR25 at checkout!

Do you need your books by Christmas? Please place your order as soon as possible. Our warehouse holiday shipping deadlines are as follows:

(NWT / NU / YT customers: Please let us know if you placed your order after this date and still need your book before Christmas)

• NWT / NU / YT: November 28
• NFL / SK / BC: December 5
• AB / MB / PEI / NB / NS: December 10
• ON / QC: December 12
• Greater Toronto Area: December 15

Our winter sale is live! Through December 31, enjoy 20% off all books on our website.

❄️ Visit ubcpress.ca
❄️ Enter code BRRR25 at checkout
❄️ Free shipping on online orders over $40 (Canadian addresses).

☃️ Happy Reading!☃️

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